68%
of test takers met the readiness benchmark for Reading and Writing, but only
48% met the benchmark for Math.

Mean
SAT scores of students whose parents did not attend any college decreased 12
points from 2018 to 2019.

Over
2/3 of all test takers first take the SAT in 11th grade, but
low-income students are more likely to take it as seniors.

Low-income
students are far less likely to retake the SAT even though they see larger
score increases that their higher-income peers when they retake it and their
likelihood of enrolling in a four-year college goes up by 30 percentage points.

As InsideHigherEd reports, the National Center for Fair and Open Testing (FairTest) claims that the SAT measures a test taker’s family background more than his or her capacity to do college-level work. Because of the perceived unfairness of the test, 47 colleges and universities stopped requiring applicants to send standardized test scores last year alone. About 40 percent of all four-year colleges and universities (more than 1,000) no longer require applicants to send test scores.